X-Message-Number: 17189 From: "Mark Plus" <> Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 09:51:44 -0700 >Message #17175 >Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 11:45:21 +0200 >From: Henri Kluytmans <> >Subject: Nano repair of cryo-damage > >Yvan Bozzonetti wrote : > >>When most nano supporter think about nano repair, I feel they think >> in >>fact about micro surgery done by micrometer sized robots. That technology >>may indeed be produced as a spin off from micro electronics device making. >>It would be useful in cryonics to repair >> cracks in frozen bodies for >>example. That would be fine, but it fall >> short of the requested >>capabilities to get out of the frost. The main problems are at molecular >>level, we must reshape badly folded >> proteins or membrane molecules. > >Nope, this is not required ! > > Badly folded proteins will reshape themselves as soon as the temperature >returns to normal again. etc., Along these lines, has anyone read the article in the August 2001 issue of _Scientific American_ titled "Cybernetic Cells"? The scientists constructing advanced computer models of living cells intend to use them for discovering new drugs and things like that, but they could conceivably be used to model repair scenarios for recovering cryopreserved (and cryo-damaged) cells. It wouldn't be the first time in the history of Transhumanism that software has been employed in ways unintended by its authors. A few years ago I heard Ralph Merkle describe the discomfiture of computational chemists when he used their chemical modeling software to design nano-gears. Mark Plus _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=17189